Backend developer (Java) - UK start up - remote

Senior Backend engineer

DealPlus is building software for the Private Market Funds (private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and Sovereign Wealth Funds) which will transform the way private market deals are executed and managed. Our ambition is to build the default standard to execute and manage private market deals.

We are a remote team located across UK and India.

💡 For more information regarding the team and product, you can https://www.dealsplus.io/about.html here

Why work at Dealsplus ?

• You will work with a word class engineering team
• We are obsessed with having a culture of engineering excellence and recognise that it will be one of the biggest factors for our success
• We focus on growth in your career
• We have a strong focus on up-skilling our team and help them become better engineers. you will have the flexibility to choose the path for your growth and we will provide you opportunities to succeed in that path
• You will have real impact on our customers
• We are at a stage where every line of code will have real impact on our customers
• We are growing rapidly
• We have experienced significant adoption to our product in last year and expect the momentum to continue in future. we believe the product has PMF, iterating and improving on the product will be the primary driver for our growth What will be your role ?
• You will work on building end to end backend services towards meeting our product roadmap in collaboration with engineering and product teams
• Be the primary driver in improving overall backend and infra architecture of the product
• Owning everything tech on entire backend team
• Ensuring security (as we work with critical financial data transactions of millions of dollars) of the platform
• Mentor other backend devs
• Improve our backend development process. for eg, improving code review process, deployment process..
• Ensure that we maintain a culture of collaboration, growth mindset and high performance

What will make you succeed in this role ?

We are looking for a talented engineer with the following :

• Effective communication:

- The ability to communicate well verbally, non-verbally (docs, email ..) with the team.

• 5+ yrs experience as software engineer (only backend/ full stack) :
  • Having experience in Java and Spring framework is a plus but not mandatory
  • Having experience with RDMBS like Mysql, Postgres is a plus but not mandatory
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems to technical designs

• Ability to debug and improve legacy architectures

• Growth mindset:

  • A mindset to learn and improve constantly and take feedback critically

• Focusing on delivering the best possible product to our users aka customer obsession

• Empathy : We are all trying to work towards a shared goal and its normal for us to make mistakes. having strong empathy towards each other is important to foster a healthy workplace
  You can apply if you think you can contribute to us irrespective of your experience. we value your potential to make impact and fit with the team more than experience

What is the hiring process:

• Initial call (15-30mins) :
• This will be an informal call to know about the role and the company and about you as well.
• Pair Programming round (1 - 1.5 hr):
• Objective:
  • Assess technical skills and collaboration
• We will give a problem before this round and then work on completing it along with one of our engineers together. you will need to work on part of the problem before the interview and then working on extending the solution with our engineer, this should help you and us gauge how we work together on a problem
• System design round (1 hr):
  • We need each engineer to have a say in building our architecture. we are having this round to gauge whether you can participate in such discussions and provide meaningful inputs
• Culture fit round (1 hr):
• This round is for us to assess your motivations, know your career plan, understand our team culture. There is no preparation needed for this round and there are no right or wrong answers, its meant towards knowing you more holistically and ensuring that we are a compatible match

Interview FAQs :

• Since the interviews will be virtual, we want you to turn on the video.
• For each interview, we will send a teams invite up ahead. please accept the invite before the interview, if you don’t accept the interview we will assume that you are not available at that time and not keep the interview slot/ reschedule the slot
• Think of all these interviews as more of a discussion than an interview. we are looking to assess how well you can collaborate with us and how you can contribute to the team more than “getting to a solution”. its completely normal to be nervous but it might calm your nerves if you think of these interviews as a discussion with your colleagues
• If you get rejected after the 3rd round we will give you detailed feedback for your rejection. we don’t give feedback for the first couple of rounds as we have too many candidates for this round, if you don’t hear us from before 24hrs of the first round you can consider yourself rejected